The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb
7 best books like The Autobiography of Mrs. Tom Thumb (Melanie Benjamin): The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek, Finding Dorothy, Olive, Again, The Chelsea Girls, A Well-Behaved Woman: A Novel of the Vanderbilts, Grand Central: Original Stories of Postwar Love and Reunion, The Silver Shoes: A Novel
The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek
| Author | Kim Michele Richardson |
| ISBN | 1492671525 |
In 1936, tucked deep into the woods of Troublesome Creek, KY, lives blue-skinned 19-year-old Cussy Carter, the last living female of the rare Blue People ancestry. The lonely young Appalachian woman joins the historical Pack Horse Library Project of Kentucky and becomes a librarian, riding across...
| Author | Elizabeth Letts |
| ISBN | 0525622101 |
A richly imagined novel that tells the story behind
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
, the book that inspired the iconic film, through the eyes of author L. Frank Baum's intrepid wife, Maud--from the family's hardscrabble days in South Dakota to the Hollywood film set where she first meets Judy Garland.
Maud...
| Author | Elizabeth Strout |
| ISBN | 0812996542 |
The iconic Olive struggles to understand not only herself and her own life but also the lives of those around her in the town of Crosby, Maine. Whether with a teenager coming to terms with the loss of her father, a young woman about to give birth during a hilariously inopportune moment, a nurse who confesses...
From Fiona Davis, the nationally bestselling author of The Dollhouse and The Address, the bright lights of the theater district, the glamour and danger of 1950s New York, and the wild scene at the iconic Chelsea Hotel come together in a dazzling new novel about the twenty-year friendship that...
A Well-Behaved Woman: A Novel of the Vanderbilts
| Author | Therese Anne Fowler |
| ISBN | 1250095476 |
A novel of a family as they rule Gilded-Age New York,
In 1883, the New York Times prints a lengthy rave of Alva Vanderbilt's Fifth Ave. costume ball--a coup for the former Alva Smith, who not long before was destitute, her family's good name useless on its own. Marrying into the newly rich but socially...
| Author | Jenna Blum |
| ISBN | 0425272028 |
A war bride awaits the arrival of her GI husband at the platform…
A Holocaust survivor works at the Oyster Bar, where a customer reminds him of his late mother…
A Hollywood hopeful anticipates her first screen test and a chance at stardom in the Kissing Room…
On...
The Silver Shoes: A Novel
In her second novel, Jill G. Hall, author of The Black Velvet Coat, brings readers another dual tale of two dynamic women from two very different eras searching for fulfillment.
San Francisco artist Anne McFarland has been distracted by a cross-country romance with sexy Sergio and has...
